A world where all women can express their needs and priorities and where Government listens and acts so that the needs of all women are at the heart of Government policy.

A world in which every human being is respected and is able to achieve their potential, living free from harm and discrimination.

Support, advise and encourage the women's sector to enable all women's voices to be heard effectively;

Act as a conduit for all those voices, in order to both advise and to hold Government to account;

Promote women's equality;

Ensure the views and experiences of as many women as possible are represented to Government to promote women's equality and change;

Ensure that where possible, women's opinions are communicated to Government so that they can be taken into account when laws are made and policies decided;

As far as possible, seek the views of and empower, socially excluded and marginalised women; and

Disseminate messages from Government across the women's equality sector.

Women;

Partners;

Other women's organisations;

Ministers for Women and Parliament; and

GEO and OGD officials

Transparency, openness

Confidentiality

Learning

Integrity

Equal opportunity and anti-discrimination

Diversity as a positive force

Inclusivity

Value the lived experience of women

Value grass-roots experience

Respect for all

Encouraging development

Enabling and participatory

Innovative and creative

Producing a Needs Analysis report. To analyse our current database to identify gaps in representation.

To clearly categorise partners into regions, interests and alphabetically, to help with targeting activity.

Ensure database is accurate, reliable and updated regularly.

Cross referencing with updated WORGS

Initiating and sustaining regularity of contact is designed to nurture relationships and build trust. This would increase the

Maintaining an up to date website and newsletter to ensure better communication.

Ensure Partners are aware of WNC's Principles of Partnership and other important documents.

Holding events / seminars for specific groups in targeted regions, as recently in Wales and with the `Listening to Muslim Women Consultation'.

Ensuring effective monitoring and evaluation procedures are followed, reasons new Partners are successfully recruited, i.e. through events or website etc.

Aim to hold at least two events in identified regions of England to target gaps in partnership base.

Holding at least one event in each of the Nations every year.

Further ongoing activity to be conducted to identify how successfully WNC's aims in relation to devolved nation strategy.

Consider introducing Newsletters for each of the Nations.

Annual meeting held with Welsh Equalities Minister

Possible visits to Northern Ireland and Scotland to meet Equalities Ministers

Ensure devolved nation representation on Working Groups

Working with Commissioners to arrange events on issues of their expertise and / or in their localities, e.g. Baroness Gale in Wales, Bronagh Hinds in Northern Ireland, Professor Kelly in the VAW sector and Sabin Malik on the Migration and Asylum sub-group.

All Commissioners to agree to recruit a minimum/set number (10?) of new Partners each year.

Commissioners to work with cross-party political representatives, for example by inviting to events and meetings with Partners for support on specific issues.

Commissioners to keep Directorate informed of progress.

Developing an attractive, modern, creative and interactive website, enabling the facility to carry out on-line consultations with partners.

By revamping the WNC Newsletter so it is attractive, engages partners' interests and is accessible, ensuring regular editions produced.

By attending partners' and others' events and seminars to network with other organisations.

Liaise with partner organisations to ensure they include a link to the WNC website from their own website.

By attending meetings of the Equality and Diversity Forum.

Ensure all WNC publications are current, revised regularly and available.

Commissioners to fully utilise Parliamentary links

Where possible, responding to challenging or incorrect articles in press by letters from the WNC Chair or Commissioners.

Ensuring WNC publications are available in a range of languages and in braille.

Providing presentations for relevant organisations e.g. Chevening programmes

Providing internships for individuals from the UK and abroad

Identifying a suitable, modern, attractive and flexible design for the new Website.

Choosing a design which will be flexible to allow for online consultations with partners and others.

Content to be more relevant and useful to viewers.

Aim to have a Partner's section providing specific information for partners.

A design which can be easily updated, but which requires the minimum of maintenance and is cost effective.

Request feedback on new website from Partners

Agreeing regular dates for meetings between Private Office, WNC Chair and members of the Group.

By briefing the WNC Chair appropriately to lead these meetings.

To consider how best to expand this group to include under-represented groups to enable a representative voice to Minister.

Canvassing views from Commissioners and Directorate.

By liaising with design companies to produce ideas for Commissioners to decide on an appropriate replacement.

To consider resource implication

Views to be sought from the Board, but may include announcing news of our revamped website and production of the new Newsletter.

Producing a plan and timeline for re-launch, liaising with GEO colleagues.

Forwarding partners' views clearly and effectively to GEO officials through regular meetings, or through written communications, as appropriate.

To identify the `hot topics' of each event and feed back to GEO and other stakeholders.

Feedback and views received from partners attending events and seminars are relayed to government to enable policy change.

Possible online consultation

Possible article to MPs about their involvement in WNC and their constituencies

Establish an e-list for Parliamentarians

Consider use of women's Parliamentary radio

Consider piggybacking other women's organisation events e.g. Trade Unions and Parliamentary women's groups

Consideration given to holding Partners' Conferences outside London.

Options paper to March Commissioner's meeting

Where possible, ensure a WNC presence at Partners' main events, i.e. Annual conferences.

To effectively utilise information gained from partnership forms to create links between Partners with similar interests and to encourage and facilitate where possible, informal networking and exchange of information towards feeding views to government.

Use leading expert partners to provide/exchange advice and information to other partners and at events.

Continuing to co-ordinate meetings of the 6 O Group with Ministers, ensuring that meetings take place regularly and the WNC is briefed to lead them.

Regular dealings with stakeholders

Liaise with partner organisations to ensure they include a link to the WNC website from their own website.

Ensure Women's Organisational Directory is updated regularly and available on WNC website and disseminated to partners.

Ensure hard copies are available for Partners and for other general requests.

meeting with Welsh Assembly Members about WNC work.

meeting with EHRC Wales.

Meeting BAWSO (WNC Welsh Partner)